Lee Seitz has an authoritative site on Rom, The Space Knight, a Parker Brothers robot action figure that was pretty cool even though it flopped. I had a couple of these when I was a kid. Looks like go for about $200 if you can find them MIB on EBay.
It wasn’t that cool of a toy.
There was also a tie-in with a Rom comic from Marvel which ran for 75 issues. Hey, maybe someone should ask Michael Brian Bendis if he’s interested in doing an Ultimate Rom!
The primary goal I’ve had for the past few years is to get my web sits to the point where they’re serving more than 1 million page views/month. This week was the first time I’ve ever seen traffic above the 250,000 page views/week level.
Good, now I can quit and go do other things.
Just kidding.
I thought the Yankees were going to sweep the Red Sox, so my prognisticating isn’t very good. That said, my prediction for Tuesday’s election — Kerry pulls out a win. If you look at the Real Clear Politics graph of the daily average of the major polls, the race has been pretty stable with Bush having a 2-3 point lead. That’s just not good enough, in my opinion, for an incumbent president to win. I think on election day most of the battleground states will see very high turnout from Democratic voters and Kerry will win.
What I am hoping for is that there will be an electoral tie, Bush loses the popular vote again, and the House elects Bush (since Republicans will almost certainly have the majority in the screwed up system the Constitution requires the House to use). If that happens, the controversy over 2000 will look like a tempest in a teapot. Now that would be reality TV worth watching.
And it would probably finally bring about a serious movement to simply have direct election of presidents and ditch this electoral college relic.
First it was the Democrats threatening Sinclair over its plan to broadcast an anti-Kerry documentary. Now the Republicans are following suit by filing a complaint against a couple radio show hosts who have been attacking a Republican member of the House and have endorsed his Democratic challenger.
According to the L.A. Daily News,
In a complaint to the Federal Elections Commission, the National Republican Campaign Committee accused radio station KFI-AM (640) co-hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou of “criminal behavior” for attacking Rep. David Dreier, R-Glendora, and endorsing his Democratic opponent, Cynthia Matthews.
By criticizing Dreier’s positions on immigration, promoting a “Fire Dreier” campaign and making on-air appeals for voters to elect Matthews, the NRCC said, the hosts gave Matthews an unlawful corporate, in-kind contribution of more than $25,000.
This is exactly the claim made by Democrats about Sinclair, and is an inevitable outcome of the ridiculous McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform. Reframe speech as a monetary issue, as demgagogues like John McCain repeatedly do, and there’s little room for First Amendment niceties.
Source:
Action filed vs. radio hosts over talk attacks. Lisa Friedman, L.A. Daily News, October 29, 2004.
Walter Cronkite the other day completed his transformation from former respected newsman to left wing nut with his appearance on Larry King Live (emphasis added),
CRONKITE: What we just heard. So now the question is basically right now, how will this affect the election? And I have a feeling that it could tilt the election a bit. In fact, I’m a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, he probably set up bin Laden to this thing. The advantage to the Republican side is to get rid of, as a principal subject of the campaigns right now, get rid of the whole problem of the al Qaqaa explosive dump. Right now, that, the last couple of days, has, I think, upset the Republican campaign.
Since the original just conveniently died, Cronkite seems intent on becoming the new Pierre Salinger.
Source:
Bin Laden Releases New Videotape. Larry King Live, October 29, 2004.
Llewellyn publishers has a Wizard of Oz-themed tarot deck:
If you’re a Buffy/Angel fanatic (and really, if you aren’t, you should be) in the Midwest, check out this summer’s Motor City Buffy Con here in the great state of Michigan. Thank goodness I won’t have to go out of state to get my Buffy con fix this summer.
Odd story from the Cedar Valley Times (Iowa) showing that there not all the relgious nutcases are in the Republican Party,
Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin says John Kerry has been gaining in the polls every day since Oct. 21, and George Bush has been going down every day.
“That’s how God wants it to be,” Harkin told a group of about 25 people at the Benton County Headquarters in Vinton on Thursday afternoon.
Harkin was touring the state to stump for Kerry and Democratic legislative candidates. He appeared in Benton County on behalf of Mt. Auburn Mayor Dawn Pettengill, who is running against incumbent Republican Dell Hanson for the Iowa House District 39 seat.
Thank goodness God isn’t one of those cellphone-only families whom pollsters can’t reach.
Source:
Harkin campaigns for Kerry, Pettengill, says Kerry’s rise in polls is what God wants. Cedar Valley Daily Times, October 29, 2004.
Yesterday, I took time off work to help out with a Halloween party at my daughter’s school. This included the kids getting their Halloween costumes on and parading through the neighborhood.
So the big costume for boys at this school was Spider-Man. It was basically one big Spider-Man vs. Ninjas showdown, with a few firemen and vampires thrown in for good measure.
We’re waiting in the hall to go outside when a group of students stops near us. Some kid in a ninja outfit notices that we’ve got two kids in Spider-Man costumes next to each other and says,
“Hey, you’re Spider-Man and he’s Spider-Man.”
The first grader holds up two fingers and replies without missing a beat,
“Un unh — I’m Spiderman II.”
Currently static files on this site are served using IIS. Seth Dillingham recently mentioned the possibility of switching to Apache, so I thought I’d just check to see about relative speeds for serving static files between Apache and IIS.
Google led me straight to this page which discuss the merits of using Apache vs. IIS for serving porn.
For the most affordable hosting, most adult webmasters depend on the Apache Web server running on the Linux or FreeBSD platform. The software is free, reliable and easy to manage. Best of all, the server has the least demanding requirements. It can easily be deployed on a standard Pentium or Celeron CPU.
Apache is also best-suited for most porn developers because it provides excellent performance for static Web sites. Most adult webmasters create static thumbnail galleries in their member services area that do not require database inventory or interactivity. Since they design and output static HTML pages with graphics, all that they require is a Web server that can deliver the pages to their clients quickly and efficiently as possible.
I can just see Steve Ballmer now — IPod users are music thieves and Apache users are pornographers.
